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A personallearning environment (PLE) is a solution for keeping up with the rapid pace of knowledge change. In adult learning, I think of it as a self-directed and evolving environment of tools, services and resources organized by a person seeking a […] Post from: The eLearning Coach Models For Designing Your PersonalLearning Environment. MORE

I first read about PLE in Viplav Baxi’s blog. Michele’s blog has many posts about PLE and her blog and the Bamboo project make an interesting case study for using Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning. And of course my much revered blogger Tony Karrer has many posts on PLE. guess my top 10 learning tools are basically my personallearning environment. To define my PLE further, I could probably identify the blogs/sites I visit more often for learning. In the process I discovered Tom Haskin ’s blog and quickly added it to my PLE. MORE

Call it a PLE if you like, to me it is connectivist learning. Other terms that i can identify with are Dave Cormier's ' Community as Curriculum ' approach and Wendy Drexler's elucidation of Networked learning in the ' Networked student model ' ( video ). agree with Jenny Mackness blog post on Curation and Balance in that it is the process that is of most interest and relevance when trying to explain to staff and students the benefits of 21st century connectivist learning. PLE - "My PLE is where I store all my “keys” to the network. PLENK2010. MORE

Empowering PersonalLearning Environments View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff This presentation was presented during IMU's seminar entitled ' Transformative E-Learning in Higher Education ' last week. Do we really need them if we have a decent mobile learning device with Internet access in our hands? Social_Media PLElearning tools Curation PowerPoint MORE

We all learn differently. Everyone of us has individual needs and personal requirements. Unfortunately, most of us are products of education systems that are based on the industrial model of education which is far removed from personalised learning. The personalised learning movement continues to grow in influence. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. MORE

PersonalLearning Environments (PLE) have been hot news for a couple of years now. My PLE is not very well structured to say the least, in fact chaos is my middle name when it comes to PLE. But I can no longer postpone the (re)structuring of my PLE for the simple reason that I am increasingly engaged in various projects that demand slightly different foci. MORE

Personal. That means that when you learn, you do it differently to everyone else. It follows that the tools and technologies you use for learning are those you have selected to use because you are (or should be) comfortable with them, personally. These tools, services and technologies become a part of your personallearning environment or PLE. MORE

I will not copy the whole post from Joshua Kim but strongly recommend you read his original article for the whole picture, not just my interpretation – ‘ 10 dubious claims about Technology and Learning ‘ Here are Joshua’s claims he wants to refute: The quality of courses has remained more or less constant over the past decade. Untrue. Misleading. Untrue. Untrue. MORE

EMPOWERING PERSONALLEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Empowering PersonalLearning Environments at USM! It will be presented at the ’Enhancing Teaching and Learning’ Seminar at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) on the 13th Feb, 2012. USING FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING During the seminar, I will be conducting two 1-hour learning sessions. MORE

If the student voice has so much power, as I keep reading that it does (when it comes to module feedback, learning resource development, pricing, etc.) Video Collaborate Collaboration EdTech Education Education Technology Educational Technology Future Higher Education MOOC PersonalLearningPLE PLN Social Learning YouTube The Future of Education. MORE

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around PersonalLearning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personallearning. Learning-Knowledge-Work - they really are the same and I need to do them all at once. Certainly PLE and PKM would seem to be too limited, right? MORE

Some prefer to travel in a taxi, or even by using their own personal transport. This is a metaphor for personalised learning, with the personallearning environment supporting an individual's learning. Furthermore, unlike traditional formalised education, the personal learner determines his or her own destination. Or is there? How's that Amy? MORE

Empowering PersonalLearning Environments View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff This presentation was presented during IMU's seminar entitled ' Transformative E-Learning in Higher Education ' last week. Do we really need them if we have a decent mobile learning device with Internet access in our hands? Social_Media PLElearning tools Curation PowerPoint MORE

Primary education students, Adam Skill, Danny Houton and James Carhart, have created a most excellent video to accompany their paper for the Plymouth e-Learning Conference next month. The paper is titled: Integrating PersonalLearning Environments into the Primary Classroom and goes beyond web tools, and even personallearning networks. Three of my third year B.Ed MORE

I have written a lot about PersonalLearning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. Unported License. MORE

For me collaboration starts with my network, my personallearning network, my learning environment … and here is how the tools I used) back in 2010: The tweet chat was, as before, frenzied and alive, and so very much fun. collaborated through Twitter last year on what it means to be a Learning Technologist in both HE and FE. Facilitating an online course #BYOD4L. MORE

In this 28 slide presentation Stephen examine the transition from the idea of the Massive in MOOC to the idea of the personallearning environment. like this idea, as the more I delve into research on self-directed and self-regulated learning in MOOCs, the more I feel it is about the individual and how they manage (or are willing to manage) their learning that makes MOOCs important. connectivism constructivism mooc personallearning environment PLE presentation self-directed learning self-regulated learningMORE

Stephen Downes on reclaiming personalised learning The overall theme is that education is in for a reality check. The reality check he wants to share is that education and educational companies must face the fact that they no longer own the learners nor their learning. To teach is to model and demonstrate, to learn is to reflect and construct. Learning is a form of recognition. MORE

I was asked by Grainne Conole to record a short video on my views about PersonalLearning Networks, VLEs vs PLEs and other related topics, as a contribution toward her unkeynote with Ricardo Torres Kompen for the PLE conference in Aviero, Portugal this week. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com. MORE

After speculation in the literature about the nature of possible PersonalLearning Environments, research in the design and development of a PLE is now in progress. The researchers speaking in this session will report on the educational research involved in the National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Information Technology’s PersonalLearning Environment project. This presentation will highlight important components, applications and tools in a PLE as identified through surveys of potential end users. PLE education CIDER eLearning MORE

PersonalLearning Environments (PLEs) do exactly what they say on the can - they are personal to each individual, created by them, owned by them, used by them within their lifelong learning. Some argued strongly for sole student ownership, vehemently opposed to any institutional meddling in a personallearning environment. What does a PLE look like? MORE

Everyone has one - a personallearning environment, that is. We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn. Personallearning environments or PLEs, are the collection of tools (not just online) that enable us to connect, create and share content with our own communities of interest and practice. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. MORE

Mohamed Amine Chatti (a fellow Eddie eLearning nominee) last two posts The LaaN Perspective , and Requirements of a PLE Framework are both interesting posts and worth reading. His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a PersonalLearning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. MORE

Thinking about my own PLE in relation to the reading led me to developing my own PLE Model. Is your PLE Deliberate? By this i mean has your PLE just grown organically by adding and experimenting with different services or have you deliberately organised and designed your PLE to suit your learning Purpose. 2. What is the Purpose of your PLE? Planning. MORE

When I started using Twitter for my professional growth and development, I didn’t realize that I was also starting to build my personallearning network. simply found myself tweeting at a learning and development conference using its hashtag and others began connecting with me. even gave it my own name: “On-fire learning.” It wasn’t very useful. MORE

Yesterday I posted my views on what I think are the essential components of a PersonalLearning Environment - the Anatomy of the PLE. The slide to the left represents the three main functionalities I believe are the most important functions learners need for lifelong learning in a digital age. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. MORE

A personallearning environment refers to the tools, technologies, resources etc. that a person uses at the individual level to build on his knowledge base. By and large, this constitutes John’s PersonalLearning Environment (PLE). The coming of technology has naturally exposed us to more entertainment, and at the same time, to more learning. MORE

As most of my posts these days are based on resources and my readings, I thought I’d continue with this I found (again) on Twitter: A Collection of PLE diagrams. Blogging Facebook Generation Y mLearning PLE PLN Social Media Social Network Technology Twitter Web 3.0 Please look through all the ones listed (the list is growing daily so what I see now and, say, next month is going to be different) [.]. MORE

Over the next weeks, I will be writing about personalizedlearning and how that applies to different learning populations. At first I’ll address K12 learning, then I’ll address how personalization affects a high-skill knowledge workforce, and a service workforce. Is K12 ready for PersonalizedLearning? Let’s start with content. MORE

“One small step for e-learning technology, One giant leap for the e-learning industry.” Tin Can API (or ‘Experience API’) is one of the most extensively discussed technical topics amongst learning professionals all over the world today. This is mainly because of the relevance it carries in today’s world of ‘Learning Transformation’. INTRODUCTION. MORE

One of the best examples I’ve come across, when looking at how you can utilise social media to form and develop a personallearning network is from my friends Sue Beckingham ( @suebecks ) and David Walker ( @drdjwalker ). Time to put that right – here it is: Using social media to develop your own personallearning network from Sue Beckingham. References. MORE

Those who are involved in the ''do it yourself'' approach to learning will tell you that there is quite a struggle going on right now between institutions and individuals over what tools to use for the serious business of lifelong learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Although it''s treated in a fun way, Edupunk has a serious underpinning. Unported License. MORE

Following the highly successful events in Barcelona in Spain 2010 (#PLE_BCN), in Southampton, UK in 2011 (#PLE_SOU) and the parallel events in 2012 in Aveiro, Portugal and Melbourne, Australia (#PLECONF), the 4th International PLE Conference 2013 will be held in Berlin, Germany together with a parallel event in Melbourne, Australia (#PLECONF) from the 10th to the 12th July 2013. MORE

The video below is the result of that interview, in which I answer questions such as: what emerging technology trends have the greatest potential for learning? and should we be waiting until our learners adopt new technology or should we be leading the way as learning providers? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License. MORE

“Building your personallearning network doesn’t happen overnight. eLearning Social Network Active Learner Facebook Google Learning Technology PersonalLearningPLE PLN Social Evolution Social Learning Social Media Twitter ” But what was the question? how do you respond? Working from 9 to 5 in academia is just unrealistic. MORE

One of the best examples I’ve come across, when looking at how you can utilise social media to form and develop a personallearning network is from my friends Sue Beckingham ( @suebecks ) and David Walker ( @drdjwalker ). Time to put that right – here it is: Using social media to develop your own personallearning network from Sue Beckingham. References.

PersonalLearning Environments (PLEs) do exactly what they say on the can - they are personal to each individual, created by them, owned by them, used by them within their lifelong learning. Some argued strongly for sole student ownership, vehemently opposed to any institutional meddling in a personallearning environment. What does a PLE look like?

A personallearning environment refers to the tools, technologies, resources etc. that a person uses at the individual level to build on his knowledge base. By and large, this constitutes John’s PersonalLearning Environment (PLE). The coming of technology has naturally exposed us to more entertainment, and at the same time, to more learning.

When I started using Twitter for my professional growth and development, I didn’t realize that I was also starting to build my personallearning network. simply found myself tweeting at a learning and development conference using its hashtag and others began connecting with me. even gave it my own name: “On-fire learning.” It wasn’t very useful.

A personallearning environment (PLE) is a solution for keeping up with the rapid pace of knowledge change. In adult learning, I think of it as a self-directed and evolving environment of tools, services and resources organized by a person seeking a […] Post from: The eLearning Coach Models For Designing Your PersonalLearning Environment.

I was asked by Grainne Conole to record a short video on my views about PersonalLearning Networks, VLEs vs PLEs and other related topics, as a contribution toward her unkeynote with Ricardo Torres Kompen for the PLE conference in Aviero, Portugal this week. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

PersonalLearning Environments (PLE) have been hot news for a couple of years now. My PLE is not very well structured to say the least, in fact chaos is my middle name when it comes to PLE. But I can no longer postpone the (re)structuring of my PLE for the simple reason that I am increasingly engaged in various projects that demand slightly different foci.

Yesterday I posted my views on what I think are the essential components of a PersonalLearning Environment - the Anatomy of the PLE. The slide to the left represents the three main functionalities I believe are the most important functions learners need for lifelong learning in a digital age. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

As most of my posts these days are based on resources and my readings, I thought I’d continue with this I found (again) on Twitter: A Collection of PLE diagrams. Blogging Facebook Generation Y mLearning PLE PLN Social Media Social Network Technology Twitter Web 3.0 Please look through all the ones listed (the list is growing daily so what I see now and, say, next month is going to be different) [.].

EMPOWERING PERSONALLEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Empowering PersonalLearning Environments at USM! It will be presented at the ’Enhancing Teaching and Learning’ Seminar at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) on the 13th Feb, 2012. USING FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING During the seminar, I will be conducting two 1-hour learning sessions.

Empowering PersonalLearning Environments View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff This presentation was presented during IMU's seminar entitled ' Transformative E-Learning in Higher Education ' last week. Do we really need them if we have a decent mobile learning device with Internet access in our hands? Social_Media PLElearning tools Curation PowerPoint

A personallearning environment (PLE) is a solution for keeping up with the rapid pace of knowledge change. In adult learning, I think of it as a self-directed and evolving environment of tools, services and resources organized by a person seeking a […] Post from: The eLearning Coach Models For Designing Your PersonalLearning Environment.

I was asked by Grainne Conole to record a short video on my views about PersonalLearning Networks, VLEs vs PLEs and other related topics, as a contribution toward her unkeynote with Ricardo Torres Kompen for the PLE conference in Aviero, Portugal this week. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

PersonalLearning Environments (PLE) have been hot news for a couple of years now. My PLE is not very well structured to say the least, in fact chaos is my middle name when it comes to PLE. But I can no longer postpone the (re)structuring of my PLE for the simple reason that I am increasingly engaged in various projects that demand slightly different foci.

Call it a PLE if you like, to me it is connectivist learning. Other terms that i can identify with are Dave Cormier's ' Community as Curriculum ' approach and Wendy Drexler's elucidation of Networked learning in the ' Networked student model ' ( video ). agree with Jenny Mackness blog post on Curation and Balance in that it is the process that is of most interest and relevance when trying to explain to staff and students the benefits of 21st century connectivist learning. PLE - "My PLE is where I store all my “keys” to the network. PLENK2010.

Primary education students, Adam Skill, Danny Houton and James Carhart, have created a most excellent video to accompany their paper for the Plymouth e-Learning Conference next month. The paper is titled: Integrating PersonalLearning Environments into the Primary Classroom and goes beyond web tools, and even personallearning networks. Three of my third year B.Ed

“One small step for e-learning technology, One giant leap for the e-learning industry.” Tin Can API (or ‘Experience API’) is one of the most extensively discussed technical topics amongst learning professionals all over the world today. This is mainly because of the relevance it carries in today’s world of ‘Learning Transformation’. INTRODUCTION.

After speculation in the literature about the nature of possible PersonalLearning Environments, research in the design and development of a PLE is now in progress. The researchers speaking in this session will report on the educational research involved in the National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Information Technology’s PersonalLearning Environment project. This presentation will highlight important components, applications and tools in a PLE as identified through surveys of potential end users. PLE education CIDER eLearning

Personal. That means that when you learn, you do it differently to everyone else. It follows that the tools and technologies you use for learning are those you have selected to use because you are (or should be) comfortable with them, personally. These tools, services and technologies become a part of your personallearning environment or PLE.

I will not copy the whole post from Joshua Kim but strongly recommend you read his original article for the whole picture, not just my interpretation – ‘ 10 dubious claims about Technology and Learning ‘ Here are Joshua’s claims he wants to refute: The quality of courses has remained more or less constant over the past decade. Untrue. Misleading. Untrue. Untrue.

“Building your personallearning network doesn’t happen overnight. eLearning Social Network Active Learner Facebook Google Learning Technology PersonalLearningPLE PLN Social Evolution Social Learning Social Media Twitter ” But what was the question? how do you respond? Working from 9 to 5 in academia is just unrealistic.

Some prefer to travel in a taxi, or even by using their own personal transport. This is a metaphor for personalised learning, with the personallearning environment supporting an individual's learning. Furthermore, unlike traditional formalised education, the personal learner determines his or her own destination. Or is there? How's that Amy?

In this 28 slide presentation Stephen examine the transition from the idea of the Massive in MOOC to the idea of the personallearning environment. like this idea, as the more I delve into research on self-directed and self-regulated learning in MOOCs, the more I feel it is about the individual and how they manage (or are willing to manage) their learning that makes MOOCs important. connectivism constructivism mooc personallearning environment PLE presentation self-directed learning self-regulated learning

Over the next weeks, I will be writing about personalizedlearning and how that applies to different learning populations. At first I’ll address K12 learning, then I’ll address how personalization affects a high-skill knowledge workforce, and a service workforce. Is K12 ready for PersonalizedLearning? Let’s start with content.

Everyone has one - a personallearning environment, that is. We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn. Personallearning environments or PLEs, are the collection of tools (not just online) that enable us to connect, create and share content with our own communities of interest and practice. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

Those who are involved in the ''do it yourself'' approach to learning will tell you that there is quite a struggle going on right now between institutions and individuals over what tools to use for the serious business of lifelong learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Although it''s treated in a fun way, Edupunk has a serious underpinning. Unported License.

I first read about PLE in Viplav Baxi’s blog. Michele’s blog has many posts about PLE and her blog and the Bamboo project make an interesting case study for using Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning. And of course my much revered blogger Tony Karrer has many posts on PLE. guess my top 10 learning tools are basically my personallearning environment. To define my PLE further, I could probably identify the blogs/sites I visit more often for learning. In the process I discovered Tom Haskin ’s blog and quickly added it to my PLE.

Stephen Downes on reclaiming personalised learning The overall theme is that education is in for a reality check. The reality check he wants to share is that education and educational companies must face the fact that they no longer own the learners nor their learning. To teach is to model and demonstrate, to learn is to reflect and construct. Learning is a form of recognition.

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around PersonalLearning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personallearning. Learning-Knowledge-Work - they really are the same and I need to do them all at once. Certainly PLE and PKM would seem to be too limited, right?

Following the highly successful events in Barcelona in Spain 2010 (#PLE_BCN), in Southampton, UK in 2011 (#PLE_SOU) and the parallel events in 2012 in Aveiro, Portugal and Melbourne, Australia (#PLECONF), the 4th International PLE Conference 2013 will be held in Berlin, Germany together with a parallel event in Melbourne, Australia (#PLECONF) from the 10th to the 12th July 2013.

The video below is the result of that interview, in which I answer questions such as: what emerging technology trends have the greatest potential for learning? and should we be waiting until our learners adopt new technology or should we be leading the way as learning providers? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

We all learn differently. Everyone of us has individual needs and personal requirements. Unfortunately, most of us are products of education systems that are based on the industrial model of education which is far removed from personalised learning. The personalised learning movement continues to grow in influence. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

I have written a lot about PersonalLearning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. Unported License.

Mohamed Amine Chatti (a fellow Eddie eLearning nominee) last two posts The LaaN Perspective , and Requirements of a PLE Framework are both interesting posts and worth reading. His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a PersonalLearning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools.

For me collaboration starts with my network, my personallearning network, my learning environment … and here is how the tools I used) back in 2010: The tweet chat was, as before, frenzied and alive, and so very much fun. collaborated through Twitter last year on what it means to be a Learning Technologist in both HE and FE. Facilitating an online course #BYOD4L.

Thinking about my own PLE in relation to the reading led me to developing my own PLE Model. Is your PLE Deliberate? By this i mean has your PLE just grown organically by adding and experimenting with different services or have you deliberately organised and designed your PLE to suit your learning Purpose. 2. What is the Purpose of your PLE? Planning.

Empowering PersonalLearning Environments View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff This presentation was presented during IMU's seminar entitled ' Transformative E-Learning in Higher Education ' last week. Do we really need them if we have a decent mobile learning device with Internet access in our hands? Social_Media PLElearning tools Curation PowerPoint